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Now that Yahoo Mail is becoming unbearable, what is a good FREE E-mail provider that has an easy way to go between multiple accounts

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  • S swampwiz

    As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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    Lost User
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    For $3 a year, I got a web site, mailboxes, etc. Paid for itself not thinking about it.

    It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it. ― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food

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    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

      Yahoo still exists? :confused: Us Europeans mainly know it as a search engine from the late 90's and early 00's.

      swampwiz wrote:

      but I am but concerned with privacy there

      What makes you think Yahoo is any better? I use GMail for all my personal email, but I have an Outlook account as well (the successor to hotmail and live). I'm not switching to Outlook because I've got everything in GMail and it works fine, but I like its fresh and minimal look (compared to GMail).

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      fd9750
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      I agree, I use Gmail as well and yes there may be privacy concerns with that but who on earth would care to look at what I send/receive? For most of the sharks out there I am just an insignificant fish, no significant money to rip, no influence worth any money. It does offer really good spam rejection though. I have not had any email from Nigerian princes or former US military personnel that could provide me with a lot of money if I just forwarded a few thousand Euros/US dollars to get access to the 'hidden' funds in a long long time. The basic idea is, if you get info on me: what are you are going to do with it? I am pretty immune to any sort of advertising and I am paranoid about all sorts of offers etc... so screw whichever one who tries to take advantage of me, just try it and it will work when hell freezes over.

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      • S swampwiz

        As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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        etkid84
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        Use protonmail

        ~d~

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        • S swampwiz

          As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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          Why not use a mail client like Thunderbird via IMAP. It presents all connected email accounts in a unified manner, including filesizes, without having to suffer the bad layouts, popups and ads you get when going direct?

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            Richard Deeming wrote:

            If you're using Firefox, try the multi account containers[^] plugin. It makes it much easier to log in to the same site with different accounts in different tabs.

            Actually, this is possible in Chrome without any plugin.

            "Coming soon"

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            Helena Graham
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            • M Member 10652083

              Why not use a mail client like Thunderbird via IMAP. It presents all connected email accounts in a unified manner, including filesizes, without having to suffer the bad layouts, popups and ads you get when going direct?

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              BryanFazekas
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              Thunderbird also enables moving emails between accounts without having to forward. And it provides a local backup in case the provider does something stupid (losing emails was mentioned in a previous post).

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              • T theoldfool

                I have a spare AOL diskette I could send you.. Get your own domain name and filter the email through Gmail.

                If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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                I have a stack of over 100 of them that I have been planning on using for shotgun targets or a mobile or something. Still trying to think of a creative use for them...

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                • S swampwiz

                  As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                  obermd
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                  If you MS-Outlook you can install multiple mailboxes in one instance. I currently have three - one business and two individual. The two individual are both free.

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                  • S swampwiz

                    As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                    Orionson
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                    You may all want to look at ProtonMail.... Just wanted to add: Subject lines in ProtonMail messages are not end-to-end encrypted, however Your message content and attachments are end to end encrypted....

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                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                      Heck, even AOL still exists! And all I remember them as was as a massive supplier of unwanted CD's ... :laugh:

                      "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!

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                      englebart
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                      Before CDs, AOL had 1, then 2, then 3 diskettes(1.44MB). We repurposed hundreds of these diskettes to ship our products. Put a new label over the old label, xcopy, ship! Youngsters now a days don't know why the ZIP programs have the "span" option.

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                      • R Rusty Bullet

                        I have a stack of over 100 of them that I have been planning on using for shotgun targets or a mobile or something. Still trying to think of a creative use for them...

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                        englebart
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                        Drink coaster set!

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                        • S swampwiz

                          As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                          ElectronProgrammer
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                          I have almost twenty Yahoo email accounts (plus five gmail and two from my home network operator) but haven't noticed any dialogs. I have been using Thunderbird for more than ten years to read the emails using IMAP. I don't even remember the look of Yahoo's login page ;P It would be unfeasible to open so many email accounts one by one in a browser. The down side is that, some times I get stupid login errors saying that the login was refused by Yahoo but that usually clears within a minute or two and Thunderbird autologins without a problem. I guess that those failed logins are a way of Yahoo to tell me to read advertising! Privacy wise, I think most of them are all the same, as in, they will be able to read your email. Even if you use an email provider that has encryption, the person you send the email to, also has to have encryption support, either by the provider or by third party (like PGP plugin for Thunderbird) otherwise your email has to be sent in clear text and can be read by the receiving provider. I have PGP setup in my main account but none of my contacts has encryption so all emails I send them have to go unencrypted otherwise they won't be able to read them. For subscriptions/shopping sites I use use Yahoo's alias addresses (or whatever they call it). They look like ordinary email addresses but are just an alias for your real email address. They can be easily created and removed.

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                          • S swampwiz

                            As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                            SeattleC
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                            I use Mozilla Thunderbird as a mail client to google mail. I don't see modal dialogs. Maybe the path to success is to not use the web-based mail client.

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                            • S swampwiz

                              As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                              Choroid
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                              Proton Mail After 4 years and 5 email address not linked to any other e-mails or phone numbers I have only had one spam email It is FREE with a lot of other Pay Options

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                              • E englebart

                                Drink coaster set!

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                                Rusty Bullet
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                                I used a pair for just that, years ago. My wife and I eventually misplaced them.

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                                • S swampwiz

                                  As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                                  Bitbeisser
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                                  Yahoo has become unbearable years ago. And if you were using Yahoo up to this time, there is no point in being concerned about privacy by using GMail. And first and foremost, I would recommend to let go of that nonsense and insist on using a web browser for email, that is what real email clients are intended for...

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                                  • S swampwiz

                                    As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                                    Lost User
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                                    Give ProtonMail a try, especially if you value your privacy. Made by scientists at CERN

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                                    • S swampwiz

                                      As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                                      V Subhash
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                                      Answer: Thunderbird/Seamonkey They allow POP/IMAP so there is no need to use the webmail version.

                                      -- http://www.vsubhash.com

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                                      • S swampwiz

                                        As Yahoo Mail subscribers probably know by now, Yahoo has started abusing its Mail subscribers by putting up modal dialogs that hinder its use. So I am looking to change over to another provider, and I'd like to have a number of accounts (e.g., one for only personal E-mails, one for business, one for stupid subscriptions, etc.), so I'd like to get a provider that makes it easy to switch over from one to the other. I have multiple Yahoo accounts now, but I accommodate it by having the different accounts logged in via different browsers. I suppose Google is the default choice, but I am but concerned with privacy there.

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                                        thewazz
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                                        I still use yahoo mail (free not paid, if they have that) and have no probs with modals or anything. I also use Adblock Plus which I think solves a lot of issues.

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                                          devenv.exe wrote:

                                          Actually, this is possible in Chrome without any plugin.

                                          How so?

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                                          devenv exe
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                                          [Sign in to multiple accounts at once - Computer - Google Account Help](https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1721977?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en)

                                          "Coming soon"

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